Posted on 06/14/2023 8:55:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Back then, the DEI term was not heard of, and neither was the word ‘woke’, but....
Diversity and Equity/Equality and Inclusion, was nevertheless the reason that many companies went out of their way to prove that they were not racist. Even to the point is being racist in the other direction.
Woke now is the same as ‘woke’ back then, and it’s gone too far and needs to be stopped. Bud and Target and Disney and the left-wing media sources are still going out of their way to be woke, all at the expense of losing customers. But, woke is their priority and woke should make them fail. People need to stay away from woke, but not be unnecessarily racist.
Oops. $36.59 million.
The original award was $25 million. The additional $11.59 million was interest Oberlin owed after dragging the case out with appeals for three years.
Not so. She is an upper level executive who was fired for defending store managers who she was told explicitly to fire because they were white.
The jury “awarded her $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000,000 in punitive damages.”
It wasn’t the store manager that was fired.
The woman who was fired was a senior level, upper management at the corporate office.
The manager of the store was a black man.
This is the real problem: publicly traded companies really aren't "private" companies-- the shareholders who were harmed by these actions aren't the ones actually in control.
The managerial class, essentially the same people who run the top-level bureaucracies, control nominally "private" corporations. That managerial class is currently running amok and imposing a corporate-fascist state on the US. Many of them in both government and publicly held corporations need to be jailed and their wealth confiscated.
Here, the CEO should pay the fine, not the company or shareholders. The corporate veil should protect only owners, not managers.
In the community garden I have plot with, three or four years ago, I had an interesting encounter with a young-looking black woman. I was working in my plot in the evening, and this young lady came by with a small group of children. (they were black, also) She stopped to talk with me, and admired my garden. (of course, she had one too, and had finished for the evening) One of the kids stooped down to pick something, and she actually scolded the kid for it, saying: “don’t pick that, that’s not yours!”. (paraphrase)She wasn’t mean about it, just very stern! I was really impressed, the kid backed up, obeyed her, and stood quiet! I was thinking that the kid and the others around her, would never be a thief, part of a gang, or be terrorizing someone, as long as he was under the care and custody of this young lady!
I know I am!
A multi-million, if not billion, dollar corporation violated an American’s civil rights and discriminated against her due to her skin color.
The corporation was punished $25 million for that violation of the civil right. The purpose of punitive damages is to make an example of the corporation who can afford the loss. The individual was “compensated” for lost wages, benefits, etc., to the tune of $600,000.
Starbucks deserved to be punished for their egregious and discriminatory action.
“racial discrimination against whites”
It is like noticing the sky is blue.
Millions of white people are routinely discriminated against in university admissions and the job market.
Black on black crime....
Boom-laka-laka-laka
But the award is to the employee who was fired.
How do such cowardly people end up as wealthy CEOs?
Your excerpt does not even touch on the case the headline refers to....
So.... Pigs DO fly!
Prepare for $10 coffee.
Or… just don’t go to Starbucks.
The $25 million is not for compensation its an award to punish offender enough that they understand how wrong they are. A lessor amount would not hurt them enough to get the attention of a billion dollar company.
The word ‘obstreperous’ and meaning would not fit on a Starbucks cup.
vociferous, clamorous, blatant, strident, boisterous, obstreperous mean so loud or insistent as to compel attention.
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